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toddlers/git_file_delete.txt

Created July 12, 2013 11:39
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You can use the — option in git log to see the commit history for a file, even if you have deleted the file.
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git_file_delete.txt
# see the changes for a file, even if it was deleted
git log -- [file_path]
# limit the output to only the last commit that touched the file
git log -1 -- [file_path]
# include some statistics, eg. how many files were deleted
git log -1 --stat -- [file_path]
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